Locke is a nerd and proud of it. He was a child during the greatest era for pop culture (the 1980s) and grew up watching Star Wars, reading comic books and listening to rock music. He went to college with the ambition of becoming a creative writer and got sidetracked into teaching instead. His goal as a teacher is to share his love of nerdy things with others.

Locke's expertise lies in Medieval and Renaissance literature and he performed doctoral research into the mythology and folklore of monsters. His current area of research is video game theory and criticism and he has an abiding interest in New Media and all forms of popular culture. He is an avid collector of retro video games.